Rice
noun
A starchy grain used in cooking, which comes from a grassy plant grown especially in wet grounds.
I had rice and chicken for dinner.
Often appears as...
- cooked rice
- rice dish
verb
To make food items into small pieces or a form like rice.
She riced the potatoes for the casserole.
Often appears as...
- rice potatoes
- rice cauliflower
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Short for Rice University, in Houston, Texas, U.S.
He studied engineering at Rice.
Usage tips
Informal
Academic
noun
A starchy grain used in cooking, which comes from a grassy plant grown especially in wet grounds.
I had rice and chicken for dinner.
Often appears as...
- cooked rice
- rice dish
verb
To make food items into small pieces or a form like rice.
She riced the potatoes for the casserole.
Often appears as...
- rice potatoes
- rice cauliflower
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Short for Rice University, in Houston, Texas, U.S.
He studied engineering at Rice.
Usage tips
Informal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Rice is a key ingredient worldwide, particularly in Asian, Latin American, and African cuisines.
Rice is a staple in the diet of many countries.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
In many cultures, rice has symbolic meanings such as fertility, prosperity, or life itself.
Rice is thrown at weddings to wish the couple a fruitful life.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Varieties
There are many types of rice, such as basmati, jasmine, and arborio, which vary in texture and flavor.
I'm making sushi, so I need to buy some short-grain rice.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Rice is a key ingredient worldwide, particularly in Asian, Latin American, and African cuisines.
Rice is a staple in the diet of many countries.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
In many cultures, rice has symbolic meanings such as fertility, prosperity, or life itself.
Rice is thrown at weddings to wish the couple a fruitful life.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Varieties
There are many types of rice, such as basmati, jasmine, and arborio, which vary in texture and flavor.
I'm making sushi, so I need to buy some short-grain rice.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Rice is a key ingredient worldwide, particularly in Asian, Latin American, and African cuisines.
Rice is a staple in the diet of many countries.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
In many cultures, rice has symbolic meanings such as fertility, prosperity, or life itself.
Rice is thrown at weddings to wish the couple a fruitful life.
Pro Tip 3/3Global Varieties
There are many types of rice, such as basmati, jasmine, and arborio, which vary in texture and flavor.
I'm making sushi, so I need to buy some short-grain rice.
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This could be why you're...
but actually, it had perfectly understandable causes in his life. One of the doctors, talking to the people in the community, figured, "You know, if we bought this guy a cow, he could become a dairy farmer, he wouldn't be in this position that was screwing him up so much, he wouldn't have to go and work in the rice fields." So they bought him a cow.
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Jonathan Foley: The...
That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles. Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over-fertilizing. There is nothing we do that transforms the world more than agriculture.
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Why 1.5 billion people...
and then the fact that you have chopsticks influences the food that you can cook. But at the same time, chopsticks reflect the communal nature of eating food. You'll have these dishes that you put in the middle, it's very family style. You go in with your chopsticks, and you put it on your rice, and then you eat individually.
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An Art Made of Trust,...
How to count rice for six hours? It's incredibly important. You know, you go through this whole range of being bored, being angry, being completely frustrated, not finishing the amount of rice you're counting. And then this unbelievable amount of peace you get when satisfying work is finished --
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The legend of Annapurna,...
Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,
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Pamela Ronald: The case...
Now, today, breeders have even more options to choose from. Some of them are extraordinarily precise. I want to give you a couple examples from my own work. I work on rice, which is a staple food for more than half the world's people.
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The Sausage & the...
a terrorist into rice paddies I'm looking for a creature that once haunted crystal streams but now makes its home in these irrigation ditches the giant salamander this cold-blooded Leviathan is protected as a national treasure so
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A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
entirely delicious you can eat up the spoon delicious it is made of dough are blended with rice and wheat without preservatives just like dehydrated vegetables our product also has a very long shelf life or more than three years
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How to rebuild the world...
most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize
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A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
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This could be why you're...
but actually, it had perfectly understandable causes in his life. One of the doctors, talking to the people in the community, figured, "You know, if we bought this guy a cow, he could become a dairy farmer, he wouldn't be in this position that was screwing him up so much, he wouldn't have to go and work in the rice fields." So they bought him a cow.
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
That's more than the emissions from all electricity and industry, or from all the world's planes, trains and automobiles. Most agricultural emissions come from tropical deforestation, methane from animals and rice fields, and nitrous oxide from over-fertilizing. There is nothing we do that transforms the world more than agriculture.
Video examples
Why 1.5 billion people...
and then the fact that you have chopsticks influences the food that you can cook. But at the same time, chopsticks reflect the communal nature of eating food. You'll have these dishes that you put in the middle, it's very family style. You go in with your chopsticks, and you put it on your rice, and then you eat individually.
Video examples
An Art Made of Trust,...
How to count rice for six hours? It's incredibly important. You know, you go through this whole range of being bored, being angry, being completely frustrated, not finishing the amount of rice you're counting. And then this unbelievable amount of peace you get when satisfying work is finished --
Video examples
The legend of Annapurna,...
Hunger descended on humanity. Parents struggled to console their starving children while their own stomachs rumbled. With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world. To His shock and awe,
Video examples
Pamela Ronald: The case...
Now, today, breeders have even more options to choose from. Some of them are extraordinarily precise. I want to give you a couple examples from my own work. I work on rice, which is a staple food for more than half the world's people.
Video examples
The Sausage & the...
a terrorist into rice paddies I'm looking for a creature that once haunted crystal streams but now makes its home in these irrigation ditches the giant salamander this cold-blooded Leviathan is protected as a national treasure so
Video examples
A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...
entirely delicious you can eat up the spoon delicious it is made of dough are blended with rice and wheat without preservatives just like dehydrated vegetables our product also has a very long shelf life or more than three years
Video examples
How to rebuild the world...
most important plants have been these the cereal crops and in particular the first three he's gone backwards not forwards let's try that again I mean these the cereal crops and in particular the first three wheat rice and maize
Video examples
A brief history of...
where residue in clay pots has revealed that people were making an alcoholic beverage from fermented rice, millet, grapes, and honey. Within a few thousand years, cultures all over the world were fermenting their own drinks.
Example 1 of 10
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Ryan Lochte
American Athlete
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
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Margaret Cho
American Comedian
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.
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Jo Bonner
American Politician
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.
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Adnan Sami
Pakistani Musician
I had to make lifestyle changes and stick to them for the rest of my life. For instance, I've had to give up bread, rice, sugar, and oil completely.
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Andrew Greeley
American Clergyman
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
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Jennifer Lopez
American Musician
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
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Rudy Boesch
American Soldier
I took charge of the rice when I got on 'Survivor.' I said, 'I'll take charge of this and it'll last till the end.' And it did.
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Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
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Maggie Lawson
American Actress
Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
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Henny Youngman
American Comedian
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
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Ryan Lochte
American Athlete
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
Quote examples
Margaret Cho
American Comedian
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.
Quote examples
Jo Bonner
American Politician
Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.
Quote examples
Adnan Sami
Pakistani Musician
I had to make lifestyle changes and stick to them for the rest of my life. For instance, I've had to give up bread, rice, sugar, and oil completely.
Quote examples
Andrew Greeley
American Clergyman
Note the three most important Cabinet positions. Rice said that it was better to find the weapons of mass destruction than to see a mushroom cloud.
Quote examples
Jennifer Lopez
American Musician
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
Quote examples
Rudy Boesch
American Soldier
I took charge of the rice when I got on 'Survivor.' I said, 'I'll take charge of this and it'll last till the end.' And it did.
Quote examples
Mitch Hedberg
American Comedian
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Quote examples
Maggie Lawson
American Actress
Rice cakes and peanut butter is my favorite snack in the whole wide world.
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Henny Youngman
American Comedian
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
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